For more updated information, scroll to the bottom or click here to go to December 6, 2017 in the timeline. This is a developing event and this post will be updated with new information.

January 1, 2017: Fatah official Sultan Abu Al-Einein in TV interview, on embassy move: “I believe that any American act of stupidity will ignite the Palestinian territories”; the United States and Israel will bear responsibility for the “return of the bloodshed in the Palestinian territories.”

January 8, 2017: Palestinian Media Watch notes six Palestinian leaders close to Mahmoud Abbas threatened violence, religious war over embassy move [“Any step regarding transferring the American embassy from Tel Aviv to East Jerusalem will directly cause an explosion”].

January 18, 2017: Fatah official Jibril Rajoub calls Trump a “lunatic” and a “fascist,” says the US embassy move “is a confrontation with the whole world and a declaration of war against it – against the Palestinians, against the Arabs, against the Muslims, against the Christians, and against UN resolutions.”

January 23, 2017: Fatah official Nasser al-Kidwa: If US embassy move takes place, “the Palestinian side would have to sever its ties with the official staff of the illegal US Embassy in Jerusalem,” and the “Palestinian political representative’s office in Washington” would also have to be closed.

January 24, 2017: Iraqi Shiite cleric: US embassy move “would be a declaration of war on Islam”; calls for “formation of a special division to liberate Jerusalem were the decision to be implemented.”

January 31, 2017: Saudi journalist writes that the embassy move could herald the end of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

May 14, 2017: PM Benjamin Netanyahu responds to Tillerson: “Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem won’t harm the peace process. The opposite is true. It will correct a historic injustice by advancing the [peace process] and shattering a Palestinian fantasy that Jerusalem isn’t Israel’s capital.”

May 15, 2017: Senior lawmaker in Likud party: “We will not be willing to pay a diplomatic price for the transfer of the embassy… The Americans are holding back and the prime minister is not going to commit suicide at this moment.”

May 31, 2017: Former press secretary Sean Spicer: Trump has yet to reach decision over embassy move; Trump will “have to either sign – or not sign – a presidential waiver that will delay the implementation of a 1995 decision by Congress to move the embassy.”

June 6, 2017: US Senate unanimously passes “A resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.”

June 13, 2017: Muslim writer Bassam Tawil: If Trump had moved embassy, Arabs and Muslims would have respected him. “If and when Trump honors his promises, he will earn even more respect in the Arab and Islamic countries.”

June 16, 2017: Chuck Schumer (D-NY): “We ought to get it [embassy move] done once and for all.”

July 18, 2017: Vice President Pence at 12th annual Christians United for Israel summit: “And I promise you that the day will come when President Donald Trump moves the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It is not a question of if, it is only when.”

October 6, 2017: US Ambassador to Israel on TBN: “The embassy will move…. It’s not if, but when. And I am convinced that during his term, the United States will recognize Jerusalem as the undivided and eternal capital of the State of Israel.”

October 8, 2017: Trump on TBN Network: Embassy move “in the not too distant future”; Trump wanted to give peace plan “a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem.”

December 1, 2017: Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh to AFP: “The American recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel destroys the peace process… The American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the American embassy to Jerusalem involves the same level of danger to the future of the peace process and pushes the region into instability.”

December 6, 2017: Abbas says, “These reprehensible and rejected measures constitute a deliberate undermining of all peace efforts; says it is a “reward to Israel for denying agreements and defying international legitimacy that encourages it to continue the policy of occupation, settlement, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.” Abbas has called for an emergency meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Committee.

December 6, 2017: Palestinian journalist: Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem won’t harm the rights of Palestinian people.

January 17, 2018: After Netanyahu’s comments on trip to India that Trump will move embassy within the year [““My solid assessment is that it will go much faster than you think – within a year from now.”] Trump says in interview to Reuters, “By the end of the year? We’re talking about different scenarios – I mean obviously that would be on a temporary basis. We’re not really looking at that. That’s no.”

February 23, 2018: Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat: “[The embassy move] shows the determination of the US administration to violate international law, destroy the two-state solution, and provoke the feelings of the Palestinian people, as well as of all Arabs, Muslims and Christians around the globe.”

February 24, 2018: Palestinian National Council: “The Palestinian National Council (i.e., the legislative body of the PLO) considered the American administration’s declaration on the execution of its decision to transfer its embassy to occupied Jerusalem as blatant defiance towards the international, Arab, and Islamic will, and as an intensification of the aggression towards the rights of our people.”

February 26, 2018: Palestinian groups: Next Friday is a “day of popular rage” to clash with settlers and IDF to protest

February 26, 2018: PA Mufti: “[T]he transfer of the American embassy to Jerusalem, if it is carried out, will not be an attack on the Palestinians alone, but rather a blatant attack on the Arabs and Muslims throughout the world, …and that it will not serve peace and security in the region, but rather bring upon it disasters of wars, anarchy, and instability.”